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In an interview with Olivia Resenterra of Kyiv Desk, poet and translator Iya Kiva shares her vision on the role of poetry in the russo-Ukrainian war. Describing poetry as "a private soldier in the battle of narratives," she speaks to how poetry's language and form, from free or experimental texts to rhymed and more traditional ones, become a crucial part of cultural defense, "to preserve everything and everyone." "In this sense, Ukrainian poetry is simply doomed to a new language, because only in this way can it be alive and true. What is happening in Ukrainian poetry today resembles the eruption of a volcano that explodes and explodes, because the Ukrainian land during the great Russian-Ukrainian war is a huge open wound that writers are trying, if not to heal, then at least to describe, because words can also be cotton wool, plasters, and bandages. It’s just that they need to be changed very often. And this requires intense poetic thinking, deep metaphoricity, and absolute and ruthless sobriety in the hell of war." #UkrainianLiterature